Adobe Lightroom 1.4 Released

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Adobe Lightroom 1.4 Released

UPDATE:

Adobe has pulled the 1.4 update for both Mac and Windows. Although they won't harm your RAW files, both Lightroom 1.4 and Adobe Camera RAW 4.4 can overwrite the EXIF date settings set by your camera. Windows also has a (non-destructive) DNG conversion error and, if you are one of the five owners of an Olympus camera, you might find problems when converting JPEGs to other formats. Adobe recommends reverting to a previous version until the bugs are fixed.

Adobe has quietly released an update to the photo processing tool Lightroom. Why are you interested? Because it brings support for more RAW shooting cameras: The Canon EOS 450D, Nikon D60, Sony A200, A300 and A350, Pentax K20D and K200D, Olympus SP-570 UZ, and the Fujifilm S100FS.

Some of these cameras aren't even on sale yet, which is in contrast to Apple's heel-dragging policy of including RAW updates with operating system updates, meaning that Aperture adds support for new cameras infrequently.

Other changes include fixes for OS X Leopard users (printing), an update to the RAW conversion engine and some fixes for grayscale conversion. The download weighs in at 62 MB, but curiously, on my MacBook, the installation only added 370KB. And for users waiting for dual screen support... Keep waiting.